2015: What's Up for You??

2MamazInSeattle

What are you planning for 2015? Resolutions? Goals? Plans? Hopes? Share, I know in years past I've gotten ideas from others here.

And, go!

ATXmommas

Two major goals - pregnancy and house.

Smaller goals - get back into a running routine before I get pregnant and get back into reading. I haven't read anything longer than an article since Ash was born.

Twochickshavinachick

1) Having the best possible year as a family with our baby daughter!

2) Actually starting to build on our land in Peru.  There's only so long A's father can keep popping over to make the plot look occupied, lol.

3) Getting over to Lima at some point to meet our new nephew and introduce Santana to A's family - and while we're there, maybe look at a development opportunity A's father has found for us.

Officerofthelaw

Our number one goal for 2015 is to have a baby. Once we accomplish that then I think we can focus on other smaller goals. I plan on applying for K9 sometime this year but first I want to make this baby. My New Years Resolution would be to eat healthier.

StacyLH24

I want only two things in 2015. A healthy baby in my arms and a driving job for C.

mrstie

Becoming more fit and becoming a loving parent.

KH826

Well, there is at least a 50% chance that a new (to us) car is in the cards this week, so there's that. (See Santa post about J's craptastic car). I came up with the option today that I could give J my car (Nissan Rogue) and I could get an inexpensive pre-owned sedan for myself. She is mulling it over as I type... It would be a sacrifice (in a 1st world prob kinda way) for both of us, since I would be giving up my crossover SUV that I love, J would take my car (which she doesn't love), and we would be losing space in our family car BUT it would be temporary, and it would allow us to keep our payments about the same without dipping into savings for a new car right now. I hope we choose this option, but my wife is less than thrilled ... Here is why this is even more important now: we discovered water damage on our ceiling in our bedroom this afternoon. Not sure how big of a problem it will be, but will have to get someone out here this week to take a look. After having a brief "we just can't catch a break" meltdown earlier, I'm choosing to be optimistic. We don't have any other choice, frankly. We will get through it.

SO, the reason I even mention all of the above is that our goals for 2015 were to try to move and to try to get pregnant with baby #2. I think there is a less than 50% chance we can afford to move in 2015. TTC #2 this coming year is important to us, but if we buy a new SUV or need a new roof (or other repairs), then TTC is honestly at risk of getting pushed to 2016. Which would be hard to accept, because we both agree we don't want to wait...

So, aside from hitting the lotto in 2015, my goal is to find ways to do more with less, save money, and perhaps find creative ways to supplement my income and bring in more money. We would be doing a lot better if we didn't need a new car and we weren't looking at house repairs. Oh, and if getting pregnant wasn't so costly. But, we make do with the hand we are dealt. I keep reminding myself it could be much worse. Life is all about choices, and we will just have to prioritize and do what is most important to us first...

ETA: that posted before I was ready...

So, aside from the above, I also want to lose 30 lbs before TTC and also find time and energy to focus more on my relationship with J. I don't want us to get so consumed with life and parenting that our relationship as a couple suffers.

Esquette

I am very optimistic about 2015.  Because I think it will be better than 2014, because it won't be 2014.

Plans/Hopes/Dreams

- Start the New Year in PDX w/friends & family

- Come home, work for two days and then go to DISNEY WORLD *squee!*

- Finish my T shirt quilt

- Get back into getting my 10,000 steps a day 4-5 days/week

- Save moar money

- Visit the Grand Canyon

- Work summer school

- Get our cats to cohabitate

- Make a baby! (timing depends on sperm-source.  the couple we are hoping to borrow some sperm from is moving in the fall, so that would move up our time-table.  Or, we'll buy some and aim for TTC in the fall.  Much to discuss.)  

Yay for 2015!

jennicole85

Things I would like to accomplish in 2015.
- gut and renovate our bathroom and kitchen.
- drop the baby weight I STILL haven't lost. I imagine I'm one of the lucky few that keep weight on while breastfeeding and since I'm not planning on weaning until he's 2, this might not happen until fall. Oh well, I can try (again).
- begin TTC for #2 in the early fall. J still isn't sure if/ when she wants another but my goal is to get all of our house renovations done before talking TTC and I'm hoping that's early fall.
- J finds a job that she enjoys. She works nights at a factory right now and she hates everything about her work. She's going to start aggressively job hunting after the new year (preferably on day shift). She's incredibly smart and versatile. She's also one of those people that's good at EVERYTHING she tries so I have everything crossed that she'll find something that she loves.

Here's to hoping 2015 is a great year!

JGY

2015 ... here we go ...

* Become more motivated at my job.  Learn, grow, get better.

* Really clean out some space in our house.  Declutter and evaluate how we can rearrange to accomodate another living being.

* Survive the rest of the S's work year (through early June), and make the best professional and financial decisions about her/our future.

* Grow a single, healthy baby.

* Do some hard work on my relationship with my family.  They are wonderful and I know that I am incredibly lucky, but my patience with them wears thin and that's complete BS. 

* Put in the time to do the reading necessary to enhance my parenting toolbox.  G deserves that effort, and I deserve to feel like a confident, competant parent.

* Get Duncan (and us) back into obedience training.

* Sell our rental property

* Pay off any remaining debt after the sale of that property.

That's a lot of stuff.  I have my work cut out for me, for sure!

 

Jazibel

I'm looking forward to 2015. 

Goals & Wishes

- Have our catering business grow into a success business venture.

- lose a good portion (or all) of the baby weight that I am still carrying from Kaden's pregnancy. 

- Find other sources of income (including the catering business) so that we can finally start saving money again and paying down our student loans

- Save money

- Sell at least one of the two flats in Roatan

- Have the house in Roatan fully rented out in the interim, and maybe even profitable for once

- Take a vacation (on a plane) as a family

- Take several road trips, maybe LA and San Diego, Tahoe, Oregon, etc.

- Decide whether we're for sure TTC #3 by mid-Spring.

- Begin TTC in Summer/Fall

- Focus on our marriage and have a date night at least once a month, and hopefully a night/weekend away once in 2015.

- Lots of fun activities for the kids

- Be the best mom, wife, daughter, friend, business partner, etc. that I can be 

mrs&mrsk

adjust to life with a newborn/infant

get back on healthy diet/ exercise/ lose baby weight

save save save $$$$ - i want to move in the next few years! 

ball.and.chain

Goal #1: I have GOT to find the motivation to lose weight. I have at least 60 lbs to go, maybe 65-70 by the time I get going. I am feeling really unhealthy, I'm running out of clothes that fit, and I don't have much energy. I want to get back into running again, too, although I have a really hard time figuring out how to fit that in to my life on a regular basis -- especially in the winter. BUT it must happen, somehow, at some point this year.

Goal #2: I'm thinking about starting a blog. I have an MFA in creative writing, but I've all but abandoned it since I got my degree and I do miss it. It feels like a big hole in my life and I get jealous when I hear about what my MFA classmates are up to. I kept resisting starting a blog because it seemed like kind of a cliché -- how many people write blogs and abandon them? how many people write blogs that aren't worth reading? -- but the truth is that it's better I write a blog than write nothing!

Goatl #3: Get a better handle on our finances. I'm not sure exactly what this means yet, but I feel like I don't really have a sense of where our money goes, and I want to try to save more.

bfonz619

I am also looking forward to 2015 and am right there with @atxmammas in hoping for a viable pregnancy and a house!

2MamazInSeattle

Love the responses!! Thanks for chiming in, and it's not too late if you haven't yet (hint hint).

Goals:
- Lose as much weight as possible before TTC#2
- Stay debt-free. Harder now with ALL our "disposable income" going to daycare.
- Get to yoga at least 2x a week, somehow. Start the online meditation J is doing (it does seem reasonable and achievable).
- Complete Simone's pregnancy journal, baby book and First 100 Days project before June
-  TTC#2. YIKES!
-  Stay the course at work - no need to go crazy in terms of achieving, but stay solid while maintaining a reasonable work/life balance.
- Have at least 1, with a goal of 2, dates each month with J, sans Simone.

Karlamo

So now that I've posted on the pregnancy check in, I feel better about saying it here.
2015 goals:
- To continue this pregnancy and have a healthy baby at the end.
- To not only survive with 2U2, but to enjoy it and to remind myself how very blessed we are.

That's all I want right now. The rest is just not important.

redrockmama

Let's see...

1. TTC #2 in fall/winter. J is starting to track her cycles next month since we are going to attempt at home ICIs again. Scary!

2. Buy a new truck in spring and then do lots of camping.

3. Visit my sister in Portland

4. Make time to be a couple.

5. Find a way to love my job, or find a different one/figure out a way to be a SAHM.